After our loss tomorrow, we will be 4 points off 4th place trophy!! :yikes:
This is getting interesting!
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After our loss tomorrow, we will be 4 points off 4th place trophy!! :yikes:
This is getting interesting!
I used to worry when teams near and around us picked up points and knocked off us 4th but this season i dont care too much because i dont think finishing outside the top 4 will necessarily be a bad thing in the long run. For one thing, it should give the manager a kick up the arse and put him under some proper pressure to do whats required and i think thats key.
A win tomorrow is very very unlikley because not only is our record shite against the big teams but the players and even manager wont expect anything from the game and will accept a loss.
Top 4 is where we get our transfer funds from and where we get the little extra weight that sees players like Alexis end up in our dressing room rather than the one down the road. Leaving Wenger out of it, top 4 is essential for the club. Who's queueing to leave in the summer if we miss out? Who's queueing to come in as replacements? If we miss out then we may never get back in considering we have investors who don't invest and there's every chance a Villa or Newcastle or Everton might be the next Arab plaything.
Wenger is the problem. We should be wanting to miss out on Wenger, not qualification for the CL. Given our squad and where we find ourselves in the league at the mid point after a decade of planning Wenger should really have been sacked by now. His legacy has kept him at the helm and it's killing us. We'll get crushed again tomorrow because we'll send out the wrong team, play the wrong tactics and make the wrong choices at the wrong time. Frustrating, and also frustrating we have shitty non-investors in charge but underneath it all is still the club and surely you always want the club to be as highly placed as possible come the end of the season?
So today will make it 16 games (I think) against the big boys and no win :scarf:
4 hours to go... :popcorn: